Cooking Academy 2: World Cuisine Review

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(More customer reviews)As with the first Cooking Academy game, my 25-year old daughter will play it for hours.She has autism and is developmentally challenged, so this game is a blessing as most of the downloadable games are too difficult for her to play.

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Welcome to the World Culinary Workshop! Cooking Academy 2 will put you in the kitchens of restaurants from all corners of the globe! From Chinese BBQ Pork Buns, to Mexican Tamales, to Japanese Sushi, make your way through 60 different recipes from eight different countries! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering all new skills and mini-games including food processors, mixers, raiding the fridge and much more!

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Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection (Mac) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my three children (4,6,8). They have been playing it regularly for almost two months now. The oldest has gone through some of the scenarios to actually "play" the game. The two youngest play the "kid's zoo" scenario which gives them access to all of the animals and they never run out of money regardless of what they do. The 4 year old can't read so she has to have help with a lot of the parts. Her favorite activity is to name all of the baby animals.

We Googled for easter eggs and found a few mythical animals and funny things we can do. The children have found those interesting.

One thing to note, you can feed animals to each other (all of the killing and eating takes place in a cloud of smoke) and when carnivores escape (either because you aren't maintaining their cages or you bulldoze a hole in the fence) they will tackle your guests and bite or eat them until caught by the zookeepers. No blood, but the people scream.

All in all, this game has been worth the price. It is in the regular rotation with our other computer games and looks like it will be there for a while.

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Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection contains the original Zoo Tycoon game, along with the Dinosaur Digs and Marine Mania expansion packs. Enjoy the fun and challenge of building and managing the ultimate zoo.

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Patrician IV Review

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(More customer reviews)The Patrician was the head of the European trading organization called the Hanseatic League, which came to power during the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, yielding as much might as royalty or religious leaders of the era. In the game you can defy destiny by starting out as a small stall trader and, if you are savvy in the laws of economic and trade, rise to the head of the most powerful merchant organization of its time. Manage your fleet, buy goods low and sell them high, optimize your trade routes, defy greedy royalty and opportunistic pirates, as you try to etch out a profitable living. This game, while not casual to play by any stretch, features a very realistic economy and should appeal to anyone that has enjoyed the Settlers, Anno or even earlier Patrician titles.

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Based on the franchise that has sold more than two million copies and won the hearts of gamers worldwide, Patrician IV will challenge players to rise up the merchant ranks to become the leader of a burgeoning shipping empire during the late Middle Age in Northern Europe - a time where success in trade could be as rewarding and influential as the power bestowed by noble birth, religious position or political clout. Patrician IV's authentic supply and demand-based trading system allows players to grow their business and head out to the high seas to form trading routes with other Hanseatic cities negotiating better prices for the buying and selling of goods. Sea battles keep the pace action-backed, as players combat pirates and enemy players.

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Virtual City Review

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(More customer reviews)This game's a gem! Without getting too complicated, I think it offers a bit more depth and contents than a lot of other casual games in this genre. And something else I find rare and precious: replay value!

If I wanted to make a comparison, I'd say the mechanics of Virtual City remind me most of Transport Tycoon (in a much, much simplified way). Although you do get to build your little city, it's not so much a building game as it is a transportation and resource-management game.

There are lots of things you can build in the game though: roads, houses, decorations, bus stations, utility buildings (fire station, hospital, tech stations, recycling drop spots...) and 7 whole production chains (i.e. from wheat to pies). You can even modify the existing layout of a map (to a certain extent) by bulldozing existing roads and wooded areas, then rebuild it differently.

The buildings and vehicles' graphics change when we upgrade them, which is much nicer than just having a certain amount of stars next to them.

At the start of each level, you are given a set of goals to fulfill. The game consists mostly in bringing the required goods to the appropriate buildings (or neighboring cities), which in turn will produce another type of goods needed by another building, or fulfill a goal. The goals are varied: goods deliveries, population amount and/or happiness, income, special buildings to be built, etc.

The game's very relaxed. You can try to beat the "Expert" time if you want, but you won't be penalized in any way if you don't complete a level within that time frame -- you can still come back to a particular level any time to play it again and try to beat the timer if you feel like it. So, in this manner, the game is not at all stressful, and not even "clicky". You can just relax, enjoy the beautiful graphics and have fun building up your city and transportation network.

Between levels (50 in all!), new buildings, upgrades, and other types of improvements (i.e. a hot air balloon to be launched from the plaza) are unlocked for you to purchase.

The campaign game plays on various maps in 5 different locations, many of which large enough to be scrollable.

Now, one of the most important thing to me: replay value. For one thing, there's already replay value in the way that you can replay any level individually as I mentioned above, whether you want to improve your score or beat the timer or just try a different city layout. But also, every time you finish all the levels in a particular location, it opens a very large Sandbox map in that location where you can pretty much do whatever you want. Endless fun! :)

Anyway, I really enjoy this game. It's relaxing, very pretty, very entertaining, and I can tell I'll be playing it for a long time without getting tired of it. Well worth the small price tag for sure!

I've played Virtual City on Vista 32-bit, and currently playing it on Windows 7 64-bit. Works fine with either operating system.

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Create a residential paradise or an industrial center in this fun and exciting simulation game! Construct gorgeous houses and industrial buildings as you produce goods and deliver them to the shopping malls. Make the city a cleaner place by recycling garbage, adding hospitals and fire stations, and upgrading building. Deal with economic downturn and natural disasters. Build the city of your dreams today!

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Bus Driver Review

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(More customer reviews)If you love Buses or just driving games that you don't have to race you will love this downloaded game. It's pretty cool...At least that's what my son says....I would'nt know, he won't let me play it.LOL

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Your job is simple, transport passengers around realistic cityscapes and country sides following a planned route according to a timetable and learn the basics of professional driving by obeying traffic rules and taking care of your passengers. Earn points to work your way from a simple city bus to a school bus, double-decker tour bus or even a prison transport.

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